Ferry Tokitae comes together in time-lapse video

Here’s a
really cool time-lapse video from Washington State Ferries via
Vigor Industrial of the new 144-car ferry Tokitae.

I’m tardy getting around to it. It happened March 5, at Vigor in
Seattle. The 270-foot by 80-foot by 45-foot superstructure (the top
part) was built at subcontractor Nichols Brothers Boat Builders on
Whidbey Island and barged to Vigor on March 2. The 1,100-ton
superstructure was too heavy to lift with cranes. Workers put it in
a floating dry dock and the 362-foot by 83-foot by 24-foot hull in
another. They lined the dry docks up end-to-end, and adjusted the
buoyancy of each to align the top of the hull with the bottom of
the superstructure. They laid down 600 feet of track to bridge the
distance between the hull and the superstructure. The transfer took
five hours and it looked like a real ferry boat when they were
finished.